The Experience of Democratization in Eastern Europe (Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studi)

This book presents a broad cross-section of thinking about post-communist developments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Specialists from the region and the west apply their insight to challenge some conventional views on the transition. The book is both diverse and focused, suggesting that the experience of democratization is an open-ended process in which those involved learn both from their own experience and from comparative transitions elsewhere.